Senior Director of Engineering, Meraki Dashboard - Meraki, LLC

Application window has been extended and expected to close on 3/18/2025.

At Cisco Meraki, our intuitive products enable organizations of all sizes to deliver cloud-managed networking at scale. To provide best-in-class technologies to our customers, we've created an unrivaled company culture for our employees, one that is collaborative, flexible, and inclusive. We take pride in providing employees with the autonomy to develop technology that's intuitive, secure, and accessible for everyone.

As head of Meraki Dashboard, you will lead the engineering teams responsible for developing the Meraki Dashboard application. Dashboard is the face of the Meraki cloud ecosystem network administrators have grown to love. You will take Meraki Dashboard to the next level of simplicity and scale as we innovate around opportunities in AI and security to meet the needs of administrators of some of the largest networks in the world.

Above all else, success in these efforts will depend on your ability to support the team of full-stack web developers and build strong relationships with other engineering leaders, UX, product management, and security partners. Meraki engineering is highly collaborative, so the engineers work closely within their teams and the partner teams they support with the Dashboard application platform.

You will:

• Work with the CTO, head of Meraki Cloud, product management, and other senior engineering leaders to set the technical vision for the Meraki Dashboard.
• Guide engineering teams through defining short, medium, and long-term goals to achieve the vision.
• Lead the recruiting strategy to build a diverse and inclusive team: driving decisions on whom the team needs to hire, partnering with our recruiters to define requirements, and talking to candidates.
• Mentor and coach managers and senior engineers through technical and non-technical challenges.
• Develop career plans for people on your team and help them do the same for theirs.
• Encourage thoughtful and creative ways to recognize achievement.
• Provide counsel as a member of senior engineering leadership.
• Assist with engineering-wide initiatives such as offsites, training, and process evolution.

You are an ideal candidate if you:

• Have extensive software engineering experience (10+ years) building web applications at scale.
• Have experience managing through managers organizations of 50+ full-stack engineers and are passionate about growing as a leader.
• Have experience building a team, making decisions on recruiting, and organizational design.
• Have excellent communication skills and can articulate a compelling vision.
• Have experience partnering closely with UX Design, Data Science, and Product Management, as well as other software engineering teams.
• Have the empathy and emotional intelligence to lead a diverse group of engineers and managers at varying stages of their careers.
• Have an understanding of networking basics and common protocols.

We encourage you to drop us a line even if you don’t have all the points above. That’s a lot of different areas of responsibility! We will help you pick them up because we believe that great leaders come from a diverse set of backgrounds.

At Cisco Meraki, we’re challenging the status quo with the power of diversity, inclusion, and collaboration. When we connect different perspectives, we can imagine new possibilities, inspire innovation, and release the full potential of our people. We’re building an employee experience that includes appreciation, belonging, growth, and purpose for everyone.

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Compensation Range: $283,700 — $384,400 USD.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:
When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

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